Me: Well, I guess y'all aren't messing around this week. Right to it, huh?
This - and plenty of calls on social media for the heads of coaching staff members - are becoming fan topics and I think everybody gets it. Poor results = call for firings from fans. Management, however, doesn't function in quite the same manner. The bottom line in baseball is wins and losses, but there are also other factors. Among them: Track record, talent on the field, extenuating circumstances.
To those points, Banister has a track record of a pair of division titles in his first two years and, regardless how "weak" the race for the second wild card last year, the Rangers were in the hunt with 10 games to play.